July Update: Named Accounts with Trust Checks, an Agent Sandbox, and Live Demos
Since our last update: your limits and approvals now cover agent payments to other Conto Pay accounts by name, with trust checks on each request; they can onboard and test policies in a sandbox before they touch production; and each new solution page comes with a live demo on Tempo Testnet. There are new guides in the Learn section too.
Named accounts, with trust checks on every request
Conto Pay is our hosted option: each team gets a payment account and a managed wallet, so its agents can pay inside your policies and your team never runs custody.
Conto Pay accounts now have a handle and a shareable profile. When an agent pays or requests payment from another account by name, Conto runs identity and trust checks and applies your limits and approvals before any money moves. A lookup or an incoming request never makes a payee trusted: a person saves the payee as a contact before an agent can pay it.
What that looks like in practice:
- Agents look up payees by name, with no wallet addresses to copy around. A person approves each new payee.
- Pay and request links you can send anywhere, plus a receipt page for each payment.
- A contacts book with aliases, favorites, and a trust review before a new contact is paid.
- An account directory and an activity inbox to track requests end to end. A directory listing does not grant trust.
You can start in a sandbox today and go live after a quick review. Check out Conto Pay.
Building on Conto is more agent-friendly
You could already build on Conto with our SDK. What changed is how easily an agent can access it.
- The Conto SDK installs from npm as
@conto_finance/sdk. - Scaffold a new agent project in one command with
@conto_finance/create-conto-agent. - A new sandbox lets an agent onboard, test policies, and make a first payment before it touches production.
- The quickstart runs straight from install to that first payment.
The whole surface is built for agents and the developers who deploy them, and it lives in one place on the Build hub.
New solution pages, demos, and a Resources hub
We added new solution pages, each paired with a live, industry-specific demo you can try. Each demo runs a real agent through Conto's policy checks and settles on Tempo Testnet, so you're watching real transactions.
The product and solution pages now show real Conto output: policy transcripts, wallet ledgers, approval flows, and network views. You can see how it works before you sign up.
We also launched a Resources hub for data sheets, briefs, and videos, including data sheets on the product and Conto Pay, and a brief on policies and approvals.
New guides in the Learn section
We added guides in the Learn section for anyone getting into agentic payments, from the basics to keeping agent spend under control:
- What Are Agentic Payments?
- How to Control AI Agent Spending
- x402 and API Spend Controls for AI Agents
Where this is going
If you want the longer view on how agentic payments play out, we wrote up a timeline: micropayments between agents and services today, local commerce within a year, and enterprise payments in two to three.
The thread through all of it: agents get a real place to hold money, and you keep the controls that decide what leaves it. Try Conto Pay, explore the demos, or start building.